Ki Tetze - 2021

Chevre, this week’s parsha is כִּי תֵצֵא (Ki Teze). When I started to become religious, I found myself in a Gemara (Talmud) class where we learned about restoring lost objects, which appears in this week’s parsha. At the time I was on a program in Arad, Israel east of Beer Sheva. A few days later we found a lost lamb. Having just learned that we need to return this lost animal, we tried to figure out what to do. I had only been learning Hebrew for a couple of months and so it was much worse than it is today. (For those that know me, can you imagine my Hebrew any worse ;-) ). Someone in the group called the police and they indicated that it probably belonged to a Bedouin and that we should just leave it alone and they would find it. This was an important lesson for some. Sometimes, the best way to return a lost object is to leave it alone. The owner may come looking for it and if you take it, even to return it, they’ll never find it.

At AWS, we have services to ensure that the lost objects should never happen. Between multiple copies of EBS volumes, snapshots, 3 AZs for S3 and replications between AZs, Regions and even Accounts. We are customer obsessed and help them with the heavy lifting. What used to take weeks to setup can now be setup in hours or sometimes even min if not automatically and with a few keystrokes or CLI commands. And for repeat operations, our customers can even automate. We allow the customer to not lose their data. We alleviate the need, as much as possible, to require the restoration. And we honor the trust they put in us to guard their precious items.

Shabbat Shalom.